Welcome
We have had a great first term at Pre-school and all the children have settled into pre-school really well, please remember if you have any concerns please speak to your child’s key person or a member of staff if they are not available. Now we are into our winter term, the weather changes very quickly can you please ensure that the children bring a waterproof coat to pre-school and a change of clothes, we still go outside in all weathers!! Remember please name clothes and bags.
Planning and Activities
This term we will be covering topics ‘Wizards, witches and magic’ ‘Fireworks’, ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’ , ‘The dark’ and of course ‘Christmas’! Remember if you have any resources that go with any of the topics we are planning please let us know, resources are always appreciated.
Parent Partnership and Healthy Early Years
We like to encourage the children to be independent at pre-school such as putting on their own shoes; please can you put your child in shoes that they will be able to put on by themselves such as shoes with Velcro straps or shoes they can slip on.
Toys from home
We have children that are brining toys into pre-school. We know that for some this is a comfort for them, but it is causing some upset for some children. If a child brings in a toy then we would like them to put it into the special basket that is in the window and it will stay in the basket until the child goes home.
Cake Sale
A big thank you to all the parents and friends that supported the pre-school in the first fundraising event of the year £165.52 from the cake sale, this money goes towards resources for the pre-school.
Bags2school
Tuesday 29th November there will be a collection from ‘Bags 2 School’. They pay schools and charities for bags of jumble, please fill as many bags as possible a bag will be sent home with each child if you need more them please speak to a member of staff (bin bags are fine). This has been a great fundraising event for the Pre-school in previous collections.
Please bring to pre-school either on Friday 25th November at 3pm, Monday 28th November between 9am-1pm or just before 9am on Tuesday 29th November.
Committee 2016/2017
Thank you to the parents that attended the AGM. We welcome the new parent committee that helps with the running of the pre-school and help to fundraise for resources for the children. There is a full list of names in the main room of Pre-school
Chairperson – Stacey Smith (Mylo’s mum)
Treasurer – Leanda Daddow (Sophia’s mum)
Secretary – Sophie Teague (Layla T’s mum)
Christmas evening Friday 9th December
Our Christmas fundraising evening will take place on Friday 9th December at the Pre-school. 6pm – 7pm. This evening is for all the children and their family. There will be Santa’s Grotto, Christmas hampers to be won, mince pies and mulled wine and the children will be on singing Christmas songs at 6.30pm. Please come along and support the event and help raise funds for the pre-school. It would be great to see everyone wearing Christmas jumpers. There will be more information regarding the event coming soon. Christmas Day Jumper is Friday 16th December.
Easy Fundraising
Shop for Christmas and make money for pre-school! Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? Will you be using the internet? Don’t forget to register with ‘easyfundraising’ to help raise money for pre-school. It costs nothing to you, is very easy to use and could even save you money with discounts not given anywhere else! All you need to do is register at www.easyfundraising.org.uk/portreathpreschool Then start shopping using the links provided to stores such as Argos, Next, Amazon, John Lewis, Toys R Us, HMV and hundreds of other top name stores. Every time you buy something online (and through the easyfundraising website) with one of these stores ‘easyfundraising’ will give the preschool a donation. If you do register, you can make extra money for the preschool by using the ‘easysearch’search engine.
DATES TO NOTE
The Pre-school will be closed for a training day on:
Monday 28th November 2016
Last day of term Friday 16th December finish at 3pm
Thanks for your continuing support from everyone at Portreath Pre-School.